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Crime And Punishment

de Fiódor Dostoiévski

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 Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Grim in theme and setting, the book nevertheless seduces by its combination of superbly drawn characters, narrative brilliance and manic comedy.
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Memoirs Of A Nun

de Denis Diderot

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 Together with Voltaire, Diderot was a remarkable figure of the French Enlightenment, as a philosopher, journalist and novelist. In this book, a young girl's enforced enclosure in a convent gives Diderot the chance to explore themes such as religious hypocrisy and sexual repression.
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The Poems

de W. B. Yeats

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 A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced.
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Bleak House

de Charles Dickens

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 The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.
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The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini

de Benvenuto Cellini

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 Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the 'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio, the 'marvellous' Titian (the adjectives are Cellini's ).
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Scarlet And Black

de Stendhal

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 In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval.
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History Of My Life

de Giacomo Casanova

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ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 In Moscow and London, Berlin and Constantinople, he met the famous men and women of the time - Catherine the Great, Voltaire, Louis XV, Rousseau - and recorded his encounters for the memoirs he wrote in retirement at the end of his life.
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The Charterhouse Of Parma

de Stendhal

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 A story of passion and political intrigue in which the young and impulsive Fabrizzio finds himself caught between the love of two women and the wars of their aristocratic factions. "The Charterhouse of Parma" is a study of disillusion and a testament to Stendhal's love-affair with Italy.
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Confessions Of A Justified Sinner

de James Hogg

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 An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double. Hogg's 1824 novel, set in 17th century Scotland, anticipates Dostoevsky's great dramas of sin, self-accusation and damnation by half a century.
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The Idiot

de Fiódor Dostoiévski

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 Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich merchantâ€™s son whose obsession with the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement.
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Middlemarch - A Study Of Provinicial Life

de George Eliot

~~25,67€~~ 20,54€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot, broad canvas and huge cast of characters, it has long been recognized as one of the few truly classic English novels.
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Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Vols 4-6 - Volumes 4,5,6 The Eastern Empire

de Edward Gibbon

~~81,11€~~ 64,89€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The six-volume Everyman edition - the only complete one now available-prints the entire text of the book with all Gibbon's own notes, later editorial commentaries, maps, tables, descriptive tables of contents, indices, appendices and two magisterial essays on the author and his work by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
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Lives Of The Painters Boxed Set

de Giorgio Vasari

~~81,11€~~ 64,89€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The painter and architect Giorgio Vasari was a pupil of Michelangelo's who worked mainly in Florence and Rome, but he is more famous for his "Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects". This is the boxed-set edition of both volumes of his work, translated by Gaston de Vere.
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Collected Stories - 2 Volumes

de Henry James

~~40,56€~~ 32,45€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creatio n in modern times. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally intriguing pieces which illuminate their more celebrated companions.
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Notes From A Dead House

de Fiódor Dostoiévski

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 In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism. As a member of the nobility he had been despised by his fellow prisoners, most of whom were peasants - an experience shared in the book by Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman who has killed his wife.
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Selected Writings

de John Muir

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 This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness.
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Tom Jones

de Henry Fielding

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 Henry Fielding's 18th century classic regales the story of Tom Jones and his longing for Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring squire.
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The Complete Short Stories Of Mark Twain

de Mark Twain

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 Mark Twainâ€™s famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story.

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Agnes Grey/The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall

de Anne Brontë

~~22,97€~~ 18,38€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, this title tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title.
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The Odyssey

de Homer

~~22,97€~~ 18,38€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'. Introduced by Seamus Heaney
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Lord Jim

de Joseph Conrad

~~17,56€~~ 14,05€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 This is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world.
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The Iliad

de Homer

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 A translation of Homer's great epic poem. Fitzgerald has also translated Homer's "The Odyssey" and Virgil's "Aeneid".
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Barchester Towers

de Anthony Trollope

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 The author was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval. In this novel, this awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama.
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Mansfield Park

de Jane Austen

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 First published in 1814, this is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families' lives are ordered.
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